As a coach with zero experience, in gliders I can tell you that it is near impossible to get a great glide without help an experienced mentor.
There are too many variables to gliders and you can't just change one. You have to at least make two changes. Example, flap and nose weight. Then with those two it is likely that launch has changed.
Even more frustrating is the changes have to very small. With kids small changes and patience are hard to come by.
Twice now we have had gliders that do over 30 seconds in a gym with a 30 foot ceiling only to lose that magic combination.
A glider that did 34 seconds fusalage broke. We repaired it and it was down to 26 seconds. We followed your advice on hip pockets and its below 16. There is just something we don't understand. Right now it is 100% luck at we get a great glide.
The kids will put in another 8 hour day today trying to get the glide times back up to be competitive at the ceiling climb. They have already spent 100s of hours on gliders since October.
Received on Sat Mar 16 2013 - 10:28:25 CET
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